Argh. Celebrity Death’s on Cafe Society generally do not devolve into legal issues over wills and lawsuits. And (no pun intended) I’m guilty of it too as I asked if his wife was the only one in his will, and she died first (and since then I’ve read she had charity plans unfortunately not expressed in legal documents) and Hackman might not have preferred the son who got the high-priced lawyer and this as $85 million tends to do (esp. to estate lawyers who take a cut) this is a legal battle.
Estate Lawyers aren’t the stuff of Great Debates on the Dope. I only meekly ask that this bummer thread continue on FQ.
My mother and I had lunch at a nice restaurant in downtown Portland. Our server was Kyoko, a woman my mother’s age (mid '80s) who told us she was witness to the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima. She was a most wonderful person to meet.